When I click on a row it highlights the line with blue background (regular behaviour), but when I mouseover other rows it highlights them too.
How can I disable this?
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Related Solutions
You can shrink the selection box to the name column by disabling Full Row Select. Unfortunately, this has been made difficult in Windows 7: the article at http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-full-row-select-explorer-windows-7/ attempts to shed some light on the issue.
You can do it if you switch to the Aero lite theme, see How to Enable Hidden “Aero Lite” Theme in Windows 8 and Later? and How to disable transparency in Windows 8's taskbar?.
Open
C:\windows\resources\themes\*.themewith notepad.Under the key
[VisualStyles]change the pointer toAero.msstylesto point toAeroLite.msstyles.Save the file (you can't actually, so save it to another location).
Double click your
.themefile
Now your Taskbar is no longer translucent:
To apply it on the current theme, see Will's answer below.
The downside of these approaches is that the Aero lite theme looks different (take a look at your minimize-restore-close buttons and etc) from the normal Windows 8 Aero theme.
Best Answer
Unfortunately, there is no built-in Windows settings that support disabling that highlight. It can be achieved, but only by modifying the Windows theme. This will require a Windows resource editor and a patch to allow custom themes to be applied (for example, UltraUXThemePatcher). You will need to open the .msstyles file of the theme with the resource editor, and replace the existing image with a transparent image. The theme images are under the "IMAGE" or "IMG" entry under the resource editor. The number of the actual image to replace will depend on the underlying theme and the windows version. For Windows 8.1, with the built-in aero theme, the image number is #605 for the File Explorer mouse-over highlight.
An easier alternative to using a resource editor, is using a theme making program such as Windows Style Builder. This is however a paid application, and I'm not sure how good the Windows 8 support is.